The Dreams of Hannah

I dreamed a long dream where we were at a hotel with a lot of people, including my family, Nich and Jayme (no Andie, though, I wonder where she went?), a maid, and a psychopath. The psychopath was murdered, and then I found the maid leaning over this giant hole that went to nowhere. She looked up and I could see in her eyes that she wanted me to push her into the hole, so I did, and then wrote about it in my journal, which was making me a bit worried that I'd killed her.

At one point we were trying to get my family back into the van, and my mom had this ultra-cool neon sign that reported how many people were NOT in our van. It'd count down from 10 to 0, and when it was at 0 that meant everyone was in and we could go. So me, Bethany, and Mom were in a large group of people and then finally saw the sign at 3, so we went and drove off in the van.

Next thing I know, I'm at youth group, chatting with a bunch of people, and PJ comes up and drops my prayer journal in my lap. I'm surprised and ask him where the heck he got it, and am told that it's now a requirement to be a youth leader that PJ read any prayer journals we've kept over the past year or so. He then proceeds to say very loudly in front of the entire youth group that I can't be a youth leader, my entries are too depressing and I obviously don't have the joy of the Lord. He also makes some comment like, "And like 3/4 of it are about... MUCHACHOS!" (Which is very not true of my real prayer journal. Heh. My journal entries are generally stuff about me spiritually or friends.)

He also protested to the fact that the first half of it *wasn't* a prayer journal 'cause I used a used notebook. Apparently I had like Betty Crocker recipes in the first half of it. He's flipping through the pages saying, "And, yeah, see, see, I didn't like all this Betty Crocker stuff!"

Labels: bethany, jayme, mom, nich, PJ

I dreamed that the drama team was doing a skit for the whole church. My father and I were up in the front seat, and he was taking notes with a red pen during the skit. The skit wasn't going so awfully well, there were a couple flubbed lines, but they were continuing nicely - or would have been, except that every time they messed up a line my father would speak up and ask them if they were aware that they'd made a mistake. I was quite embarrassed and kept hoping he'd be quiet.

Labels: dad, drama

I dreamed I threw a party for my Sunday school girls at Amanda's house, but only one girl came (one who doesn't even exist in real life), and she came with her mother, who explained that she had mental problems. Sure enough, the girl started growling and chasing me around the table, saying she was gonna "get me for that".

Labels: manda

I dreamed my dad was the captain of a ship and rescued this girl from an island. (Actually, it was Hayley Mills.) Then they took her to a mental hospital because she was a little loopy from being on the island. At one point, Dad was talking to a nurse and explaining how he always thought he was a little crazy too, so the nurse thought they had better admit him. (?!) Next thing I know, he, the nurse, and Hayley Mills are in a barn, where Hayley's crouching in the corner covering her eyes with her hands and my dad's sort of standing in another corner. The nurse tells Hayley that she has to be the strong one and help calm my dad right now. (Although Dad looks perfectly calm to me.) Hayley sobs, "That's not fair! I was treated first! I'm sicker than he is!" To which the nurse replies, "But you're older." Hayley gives her a strange look and says, "No, I'm not!" And the nurse says, "Well, it doesn't really matter now, does it?" Which makes me wonder...if it doesn't matter, why bother to lie about it? Hmm...

Labels: dad, hayley mills

I dreamed I went to the drama murder mystery party, except it was at my house. We had discovered who the murderer was, and now were waiting for kids' parents to come and take them home. Amber was pacing around outside on the front porch, and Chloe was with her. I went upstairs, where Dianna, Amanda, Jayme, Joey, and Canaan were gathered in the bathroom. I went in and started talking with them.

Chloe came in at that moment, except her eyes were sort of glazed over and kept twitching, as if she couldn't see very well out of them. I asked her where Amber was, and she said, "Oh, you know her. She's still downstairs."

Suddenly I knew Chloe was a real killer and had killed Amber. There was a sharp knife on the bathroom floor, and I picked it up but knew I wasn't strong enough to try to attack her, so I gave the knife to Dianna. Dianna walked toward her and tried to stab Chloe in the chest, but Chloe pushed the knife back up toward Dianna and somehow got a hold of the knife. At the point, she slashed Dianna's throat several times and then stabbed her in the stomach. This is the most gruesome dream I have had in my entire life. I could *feel* the pain of the knife cutting me open, even though it wasn't really me, it was Dianna. I woke up in a panic and couldn't go back to sleep for forty-five minutes.

Labels: amber, canaan, chloe, dianna, jayme, joey a, manda

I dreamed that I got a letter from Alicia's mom. (Alicia is one of the girls in my Sunday school class.) It was in a yellow envelope and Alicia's mom's name was Pippi. She was incredibly grateful for, er, something, and was sending me plane tickets to this town in California named Santa Jesus (pronounced the Spanish way).

Labels: alicia

I dreamed our church choir planned to do a production of "Amahl and the Night Visitors" and I was truly baffled as to who they intended to cast. We don't have a whole lot of opera singers at our church.

Labels: amahl and the night visitors

I dreamed I went to Spanish class, except there was an exam that day, and it was on the top of a tower. I walked around with my cousn Mandy, trying to find my professor. Everyone was saying very nasty things about her.

Then I was by a stage, watching my Sunday school girls do a musical. It was very well-done, actually. The girls had written the lyrics to the tunes of Hungarian folk songs and had put it together in just one day. However, the day of the performance, my Spanish professor (her again, heh) appeared on stage right before they started and said, "Oh, let's sing the funny song for your parents!" And though the girls weren't pleased, they sang "the funny song" roughly to the tune of "Do You Know the Muffin Man?". It went:

We are from the funny farm,
The funny farm,
The funny farm,
We are from the funny farm,
Because we're inconsistent.

Labels: mandy, mrs c

I dreamed Elizabeth and Bethany and I were all eating chicken and watching The Adventures of Robin Hood. Then Elizabeth gave us this ham and it was really yummy. I tried to get some more, but she had stuck it into a water bottle (with water in it) - to keep it "fresh" or something. I asked Elizabeth where she got it and she said it was Maid Marian. Ick.

Labels: bethany, elizabeth, robin hood

I dreamed I watched some horror movie, and Joel wandered in in the middle of it. I tried to shoo him out. I remember the movie considered of these tiny, bloody skeletons raising children. It was quite repulsive.

Labels: joel

I dreamed I was watching a movie, except I was randomly part of it. It started with someone (it's not clear whether it's the guy or the girl in the movie, it changed halfway through) standing in a fairground, trying to decide what ride to go on. There's an apartment building next to the fairground, and as the person on the ground looks up, and sees someone at the window of one of the rooms. (At first it was a girl who sees a guy, but then later it was the guy who sees the girl.) The window person smiles at the ground person, except the smile looks more like a grimace. The ground person smiles back. The window person beckons for the ground person to come upstairs, and so the ground person turns and starts to head toward the apartment by, er, heading completely away from it toward a field.

This is where the characters are more solidified. The guy in this movie is played by Colin Farrell, and now he is the one on the ground. The girl in the window is played by Jessica Sierra (an American Idol contestant until last week). At this point two other characters show up - the evil bad guy, played by someone that I can't figure out who it is, and the evil bad guy's sidekick, played by Sean Astin.

As Colin heads through a field, Bad Guy and Sean capture him and threaten to kill him. Colin keeps evading them but they keep chasing him, shooting at him with these tiny plastic-looking guns.

At some point Colin ends up back at the apartment, where Jessica (and her mother, who has shown up out of nowhere) tries to help him by helping him into the apartment, where surely the bad guys can't find him! Except, instead of doing the intelligent thing and letting him walk in the door, they insist he come in through the window, which is now at ground level, instead of three stories up like last time he saw their window. Not only that, they don't even open up the window or break it all the way. They cut a tiny triangle hole in it and ask him to crawl through it.

I show up briefly at this point. There are suddenly three people waiting to crawl through the window - some random dude, me, and Colin. Random Dude gets through, I get through, but Colin gets stuck halfway, with the bad guys rapidly closing in, so Jessica pushes him back out and says he'll have to use the door.

The bad guys catch up with him but Jessica's mother manages to persuade them to all come up to the apartment and have tea. The Bad Guy likes tea but Sean doesn't. He keeps making funny faces into his cup. While they're preoccupied, Jessica takes Colin upstairs to her bedroom and tries to help him escape. Being the very helpful heroine she is, she cuts a triangular hole in HER window and says, "There, now you can escape!" Colin again gets stuck halfway through, the bad guys suspect something's wrong, and they come upstairs and chase him.

Things go a little hazy at this point. Somehow Colin manages to shake the bad guys for good. He proposes to Jessica. Next time we see him, he's racing along to his wedding on foot - he's late. He's not even running on the sidewalk, actually, he's running on the grass behind a bunch of trees. A limo pulls up, the door opens, and The Bad Guy stands there in a tux, pointing the green plastic-looking gun right in Colin's face... and the movie ends. I woke up thinking, "Gosh, that's bleak."

Labels: colin farrell, jessica sierra, sean astin

I had a dream in two parts. In the first part, I was watching a movie in which Adam Sandler was an evil psychiatrist who had millions of dollars hidden in his safe (which was in his bathroom). Jodie Foster and some random dude played two people who wanted to take the money and give it to a charity. They ended up crawling INTO his safe and tunneling through it to get the money out. They also crawled through the sewer for a long time. This obviously happened because in real life I had just watched The Shawshank Redemption, where someone crawls through a sewer for a long time. *grin*

Then I dreamed the youth group went down to Mexico for a missions trip. While down there, I thought, "Oh! Gina came here once, didn't she?" And lo and behold, Gina and a friend of hers, Jasmine (who, far as I know, doesn't exist), suddenly are there. I should try that more often.

We then went exploring, climbing down mountains and waterfalls somehow, and finally finding a huge cave down at the bottom of the waterfall. There are several places where you can enter the cave, and all of them are covered by old rotting purple curtains. When we went through the curtains, we found these giant crocodile bones. In fact, an entire crocodile skeleton, except for a skeleton that was about as big as a dinosaur. Manda didn't seem too thrilled about this, and she and I sat outside debating whether to go in and look at it.

Then we went to the zoo. I went off on my own with Gina and Jasmine, and we visited the fish tank, which was a GIANT aquarium that had, pretty much, just tons and tons of goldfish. You could climb up a ladder and get into the aquarium and swim with the goldfish if you wanted. However, you had to be careful, because about every ten minutes a net would come out from the side of the tank and scoop up a bunch of goldfish and plop them out of the tank into a long strip of mud. The fish would flounder around in the mud for awhile, and then suddenly the mud would pop up and throw them into another, smaller tank, where these scrubbing machines would clean the fish up, and then throw them back into the big tank. The zoo took great care to make sure their fish were clean.

Labels: adam sandler, homa, jodie foster, manda

I dreamed this guy from my past was chasing me. I knew him in North Dakota, but he was like a deformed psychopath (but NOT like Erik, this guy truly was a psychopath and far more deformed than in the movie or the play - he had kind of a melted-down face...) and he burned down the church. His mother came to live with us in Illinois because she was scared of the guy too. Then one day I went out to lunch with his mother and we're sitting there in the restaurant, talking, my back to the door, when suddenly this look of utter horror comes over her face. I turn around to see... this psycho dude who we thought we had escaped from walking in the door. I woke up at this point, thank goodness, and couldn't go back to sleep for an hour. Very eerie.